As a good penetration tester, you should consider hiding your IP address after it has been determined that the target utilizes dynamic shunning to block the attackers’ source IP address. Also, the mere threat of a upcoming penetration test can travel around an IT staff like the plague. Eventually, you will run up against Network Administrators trying to cover their a$$ by setting up a firewall rule to block your authorized test IP. If so, here is a slick way around it!

Well the trick with improving speed is to try to pick the fastest ExitNode in the country you wish to be in. However, has any one noticed that often the fastest ExitNodes are in the US and tend to be near areas of state-sponsored cyber-defense institutions? Makes me a bit suspicious after I do a GeoIP lookup and it is sitting somewhere in Virginia, Colorado, Texas. Or have I gotten way to paranoid?